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bally303
After i Install Vista on new HDD, What will happen when i connect the old hdd witch also has vista on it & a Load of important data.
I Just Brought New HDD & want to Reinstall Vista on it, Need Help?
Hello Bally,
You could copy any data you want from the old HDD to the new one, format the old HDD, then use the old HDD as a data or backup drive if you like.
You could copy any data you want from the old HDD to the new one, format the old HDD, then use the old HDD as a data or backup drive if you like.
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
- Memory
- 64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
- Graphics card(s)
- ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
- Sound Card
- Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
- Screen Resolution
- 2560x1440
- Hard Drives
- 1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
- PSU
- Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
- Case
- Thermaltake Core P3
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- Corsair Hydro H115i
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3
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- Logitech wireless K800
- Internet Speed
- 1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
- Other Info
- Logitech Z625 speaker system, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam, HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn, APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI, Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Envy Y0F94AV
- CPU
- i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR4-2133
- Sound Card
- Conexant ISST Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.3" UHD IPS touch
- Screen Resolution
- 3480 x 2160
- Hard Drives
- 512 GB M.2 SSD
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bally303
i have no space on my external HDD to put all info from old Internal HDD on, So i cant format the HDD.
can i dissconect old internal HDD with vista on it & then Install New Internal HDD Put PC on, Then install vista via a DVD After Vista Has installed,What would happen if i connect the old HDD with the new HDD both with vista installed on it would i be able to access the data on the old HDD or would i have to format it
can i dissconect old internal HDD with vista on it & then Install New Internal HDD Put PC on, Then install vista via a DVD After Vista Has installed,What would happen if i connect the old HDD with the new HDD both with vista installed on it would i be able to access the data on the old HDD or would i have to format it
My Computer
There's no issue with installing the Vista on the new HDD with the old one disconnected. That would be recommended. The issue would be that you can only have one Vista activated with your key, so the Vista on the old HDD needs to be deleted.
How much free space do you have on the old HDD?
Would it be enough free space to create another partition on it large enough to move the data to, so that you would be able to delete the old Vista installation and still have your data?
How much free space do you have on the old HDD?
Would it be enough free space to create another partition on it large enough to move the data to, so that you would be able to delete the old Vista installation and still have your data?
My Computers
System One System Two
-
- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
- Memory
- 64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
- Graphics card(s)
- ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
- Sound Card
- Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
- Screen Resolution
- 2560x1440
- Hard Drives
- 1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
- PSU
- Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
- Case
- Thermaltake Core P3
- Cooling
- Corsair Hydro H115i
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3
- Keyboard
- Logitech wireless K800
- Internet Speed
- 1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
- Other Info
- Logitech Z625 speaker system, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam, HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn, APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI, Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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- Operating System
- Windows 10 Pro
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Envy Y0F94AV
- CPU
- i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR4-2133
- Sound Card
- Conexant ISST Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.3" UHD IPS touch
- Screen Resolution
- 3480 x 2160
- Hard Drives
- 512 GB M.2 SSD
Post a screenshot of your Disk Management. Maybe we can work something out. And how big is your new HDD going to be and do you have an external enclosure.
If the latter were the case, you could define an empty Vista partition and an empty data partition on your new drive. Then move the data to the new data partition. From there you can delete everything on the old drive and reinstall into the newly defined Vista partition on the new drive.
If the latter were the case, you could define an empty Vista partition and an empty data partition on your new drive. Then move the data to the new data partition. From there you can delete everything on the old drive and reinstall into the newly defined Vista partition on the new drive.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell
- CPU
- Q6600
- Memory
- 4GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP w2207h
- Hard Drives
- 2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
- Other Info
- Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
I don't understand. I have an OEM version of Vista. It is installed on one partition of a relatively new hard drive and on two partitions of another hard drive. Both hard drives are connected to the SATA bus of one computer. Whenever I boot from one hard drive, I can access the other hard drive and all it's files. In fact, I use the hard drive that has two versions of Vista on it as my backup drive.
My Computer
System One
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- Operating System
- Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP2
- Manufacturer/Model
- Cyberpower
- CPU
- Intel Quad CPU Q6700 2.67 GHZ
- Motherboard
- NVIDIA 780i
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics card(s)
- MSI GTX 560 TI Twin Frozr
- Sound Card
- Sound Blaster SB Audigy
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Viewsonic VG2436
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080p
- Hard Drives
- Samsung HD 105SI WDC WD20
- Case
- Apevia XJupiter
- Cooling
- air
- Mouse
- Logitech MX 600
- Keyboard
- Logitech MX 3200
- Internet Speed
- 30 Mbps